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- For the present-day Polish provinces, see Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship. For the present-day German state, see Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The Province of Pomerania (German: Provinz Pommern) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 until 1946. It was created from Farther Pomerania and Swedish Pomerania (Hither Pomerania), which had belonged to Brandenburg and Sweden respectively since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Sweden had awarded her part of Pomerania to Denmark by the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, but the treaty never entered into force and the territory was passed to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna the following year.
After World War II Pomerania was part of the Soviet occupation zone and the section of Pomerania east of the Oder-Neisse line was ceded to Poland. The remaining territory became part of East Germany in 1949 and, following the German reunification in 1990, was merged with Mecklenburg to form the new state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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